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The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-12-01

o. my pipes an rough ways, an fel
way below her. But then l thought
too, of her brown eyes and drove on
1t was just supper-time when go
to the house. an they all asked me il
to take somethin' with 'em, only Eliz
abeth Jane, she didn't pass me too
much.
1 suppose that supper was as long al
common meals, but it seemed to fly by
to me. After we was through, l talked
crops to the old gentleman, bu
watched Elizabeth washin' the dishes
She was so easy an good to look at
as she worked, 1 couldn't help it nc
how, spite of my determination to keeI
my mind on her father, an my eyes
too. looked an looked an couldn't
get enough o. lookin'.
After that 1 don't jest remember
what happened, but somehow we found
ourselves out on the porch alone, look
in at the west that was all mass o
gold an purple. 1t was one of them
moments that come to man now an
then an keep him sure there's a
Heaven-tender an deep and still.
don't mean to say there wern't no
noises, for there were-the tree toads
a-singin' an the frogs a-croakin' an the
leaves a-rustlin', but they was still
noises an tender.
Elizabeth, l says, feelin' how hard
it would 60 with me if she refused me.
Elizabeth, I've got lots of faults, an
1 amt got no polish like the city chap
to cover 'em. but l love you, dear, an
want you for my wife. Do you s'pose
you could care for me like that?''
/ was standin' very near her, an
could hear her heart beat fast, but she
answered with a soft little laugh:
"You amt got a temper" she says.
under her breath, IAN you amt lost
your place on account of it, an think
you've made mistake an don't want
me, at least, 1 don't see how you can,
any way"
L didn't waste no words. knew.
my heart told me, the peacefulness
was to be mine; the brown eyes had
what I'd lost in 'em an somethin' be-
sides. l jest put my arms round her
in the deep summer night, an held her
fast.
IL love you, temper an ALL" says.
"wash-tub an every thing. Don't you
care for me jest Il little?'
YES" she whispered back, Gin spite
O. my temper"
An that's my wife, Elizabeth Jane,
that 1 call Mother" now, because
there's another Elizabeth Jane in the
family.
We live on the old farm. an barrin'
the mistakes that come into all house
keepin' arrangements an have to be
made straight by experience, we've
been as happy as the days is long.
l still peddle tins, an sometimes
when I'm ridin' along in the evening /
think O. bein' without the wife an
home I'm goin' to. an by the weight
in my heart | know how much they are
to me. So l say: "Bless the wives,
all on 'em, but more particularly bless
my wife. "-PortiGnd Transcript.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-12-01
A TERRIBLE DRUG.
The Moral Perversion Produced by the
Habtual Use of Morphine.

|
Habitual Use of Morphine.
Persons who have become morphia
habitues remain free from trouble fol
variable periods of time. Some begin
to suffer seriously in a few months,
others only after years. This difference
depends rather upon individual pecu.
liarities than upon the quantity Of the
drug which is taken. But sooner or
later all degenerate, both bodily and
mentally. They become pale, sallow
and emaciated; their appetite is great
ly diminished, and the digestive
processes are disordered; sleeplessness
sets in in spite of their morphia, and
what rest they do get is disturbed by
horrible dreams. They become sterile,
and lose their energy and interest in
life, while all their thoughts are con-
centrated on their morphia. If they
have been accustomed to inject the
drug simultaneously, those parts of
the body which are within reach of
the syringe are one mass of sores, so
that they are sometimes at loss to
find a sound spot where they can
tolerate an injection. These physical
troubles are bad enough, but the moral
change eclipses them. No one who has
not had experience of these melancholy
cases can form an idea of the moral
perversion which this habit produces.
The constant and increasing use of
the drug-for this is the rule-at length
enfeebles the will and makes the man
a moral paralytic, of ali spectacles the
most pitiable this side of the grave"
C'Opium Smoking and Opium Eat
ing" by George Shearer, NJ. D., 1881. }
Untruth is second nature with them.
LAS a rule no one thinks of trusting 10
the word of an opium smoker, his char
acter is wholly unreliable" George
ShearerD the same may certainly be
said of the morphia habitue. Levin
stein, one of the greatest German au-
thorities on the subject says: ''Edu-
Gated, intelligent men and women,
otherwise deserving of respect, de-
scend to lying" Even De Quincy,
though he denies moral perversion,
admits that opium renders man inca
pable of doing what he knows to be
right The opium eater loses none of
his moral susceptibilities or aspirations;
he wishes and longs as earnestly rs
ever to realize what he believes possible
and feels to be exacted by duty; but
his intellectual apprehension of what is
possible infinitely Outruns his power, not
of execution only, but even of pc yer to
attempt He lies under the weight of
incubus and nightmare; he lies in sight
of all that he would fain perform, just
as man forcibly confined to his bed BY
the mortal languor of relaxing disease
who is compelled to witness injury or
outrage offered to some object of his
tenderest love; he curses the spells
which chain him down from motion;
he would lay down his life if he might
but get up and walk. but he is power
less as an infant, and can not even at
tempt to rise. "-(.Confessions of an
English Opium Eater.') The morphia
habit may even transform the tenderest
affection into hate. 1 have known a
happy home rendered almost uninhab-
liable and husband driven to despair
by the terrible change produced in the
character of his wife by the influence OF
this habit-Nineteenth Century.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-12-01
About an Even Thing.

He drove up to a bakers in laundry
wagon and entered the place and asked:
Have you Boston baked beans?"
'.Yes, SIR"
Baked in Boston, were they?"
NO, sir; in Detroit"
Then what right have you to call
'em Boston baked beans?"
"You own laundry, don't you?"
II do"
''Itis the Princess Laundry,isn't itP''
'Yes. SIR"
sis it run by Princess?"
IN "A, but -"
Then what right have you to call it
the Princess Laundry"
The laundry man took four dishes of
beans.-Detron Free Press.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-12-01
A Scientific Secret-An

"A Scientific Secret-An effective
method of petrifying animal bodies
was claimed by DR.. G. B. Massedaglia.
a distinguished Padua chemist who
died more than forty years ago. The
secret of the process was left for his
legitimate heirs. who have only very
recently been found. The discovery
so long locked up is now eagerly
sought and large sums have been
offered for ft-thus far unsuccessfully.
--AyLdrssGU ZrGreler.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-12-01

-Blobson-"You never saw such a
devoted father as Dempsey. He just
swears by his children. Popinjay-
Elbow different from Bigsby! He just
swears - his. ''-Bnrlinytos Free rrcss.
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.
for it grew to be dreadful dry season,
and the travelin' was vile. he'd to 90
to that farmhouse good many times;
1t was no use tryin' to keep away, for
the thought O. them bright eyes drew
me there sure as honey draws bees.
Imade excuses an made excuses to
myself till most forgot Twas Meth
odist in good an regular standin'.
Then l drew myself up short.
Its no use, James Grimer' said;
you've lost somethin', an you won't
find it unless you find it in them brown
eyes down on the Gray farm
So l put on my best suit O. clos an
a light Overcoat, for it was gittin' near
winter an the nights was chilly, an
hired team of the livery stable at the
village where 1 was stoppin' an
started. But hadn't gone more'n a
rod or two when 1 turned back.
mo. you don't" L says, Ego dressed
upi your very best and behind hired
boss You amt goin' to take no such
advantage O. the little girl. Like as
not she'll be tired with her day work,
an in her common. everyday dress,
an You amt goin' in upon her all fixed
up as if you had no work to do or
nothin'-no, sir, not by long shotr'
So took of the shiny store clos an
put on the old ones had on when 1
first see her. They was pretty seedy.
but l put 'em on. an when I'd hitched
the old mare into the tin-cart felt a
sight more square an comfortable.
Twas no better as fur as clos went than
the dear little woman ] wanted for nv
wife Was-as to character. / thclcLt
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-12-01

There is restaurant in London
where only those eat who are afflicted
with corpulency. tho food being en-
tirely anti-fas
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-08-11
The Rabbits of Australia.

A time will doubtless come when in the
life and death struggle between man and
the rabbit, the latter will have to 60 under.
That time, however, will be postponed, we
fear, for many years. Meanwhile, Aus
tralian rabbits will continue to be a terror
to the farm and squatter, as we'll as O
drug in the market. simultaneously the
price of this favorite little quadruped is
advancing in every European capital.
The rabbit cannot be got for less than
nineteen or twenty pence, or moro
than three shillings a couple in High
street, Marylebone, in the Edgeware
road, or In the New cut; while in
Paris five francs for couple of
''lapins' IS deemed low price. These
figures involve great privstion to the
lower classes in both capitals. In London
rabbit pie is the favorite Sunday dinner in
many humble home, but when the raw
material cannot be got for less than one
shilling and sevenpence head the price is
regarded as prohibitive. In Paris the
"lapin saute" ranks with the rabbit pie of
the British capital, but two francs for
single "lapin'' is fatal to his appearance
on q poor mans table. Can nothing be
done 10 bring the swarining and devastat-
ing legions CT Australian rabbits and the
fred lane" Of English threats together?-
London Telegraph.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-08-11
SCORPIONS of Southern Mexico.

Mcxicans are complaining about the in
crease of scorpions of late in the southern
part of Mexico. They are so numerous
that nearly every house is oyerrun with
them. They are within the cracks of the
walls, and dart everywhere with inconceiv-
able rapidity; their tails, which hold
the sting, are held ready to fly up, with
dangerous effect, upon the slightest provo
cation. The average scorpion is mahogany
hued, and about two inches long; but they
have been found five inches in length.
The small, yellowish variety are con-
sidered more dangerous, and their
bite is most apprehcnded at mid
day. In Durango they are black and
so alarmingly MISUNDERSTANDING been al
lowed to breed for centuries in tho de-
serted mihes--that the government offers
reward per head Tor rather, per taiD to
whoever will kill them. Their sting is sell
dom fatal, but it is more or less severe,
according to the state of the system. Vic
tins have been known to remain for days
in commissions, foaming at the mouth,
with stomach swelled as in dropsy, while
others do not suffer much more than from
bee sting: -zDemorest's Monthly.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-08-11
The Fear of Drauohts.

Foul dust in rooms cannot be got rid Of
by any amount Of sweeping and carpet
beating. The only thing that will remove
and replace it is q current of compare
lively pure air from the outside. Except
in very cold weather, there should always
be two open windows in each room, on
opposite sides. "If we should follow that
advice" the Mortified reader will cxclaim,
1--WE should ali catch a fatal cold. Don't
remember dozen colds got by being
exposed to o sudden draught? Only
few nights ago, when l occupied scat
near the door Of theatre, the door was
left open during the intermission, and the
draught, though pleasant enough, gave
mo bad cold. 70, thank you; no
draught for mcr' This logic seems good,
yet it is utter sophistry. AS @ Tctaphy-
sician would says the draught was only
the occasion, not the cause, Of the cold.
The real cause was the foul, hot air in the
theatre, which dcmoralized your skin and
relaxed its blood vessels, so that they
were unable to react suddenly end endure
the healthful, cool air from the street. In
other words, it was not the draught that
gave you a cold, but the sudden transition
from hot to cold air. Such transition
always is injurious to the skin, whether
it be from hot to cold or from cold to hot
air.
But if you are not overheated current
of cold air is never injurious. AS one OF
the greatest authorities on hygiene, Pro-
fesscr RECLAIM, remarks, "Draughts are
not injurious unless we are in O glow,
To healthy persons they cannot do so
much harm as the stagnant air in close
room, The fear Of draughts is entirely
groundless, though it affects most people
in manner which is simply ludicrou8. !"
It is high time to acquit draughts Of the
charge of being the cause Of orr colds,
and to convict the true culrrit, tho injuri-
Gus dollhouse atmosphere in our rooms.
Why do people On river excursions, or on
ocean steamers, where they are exposed
to terrible draughts, never "catch cold?"
Simply because their kins are not previ
ously broiled in hothOuses.-The Epoch.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-08-11
Tha Chinese in Honolulu.

Honolulu is almost overrun by the Chi
nese; many Of these are merchants OF no
small pretensions, and one or two are mil
honaires. One Of the prettiest residences
in the fashionable part of the city Is
owned by a Chinaman named A. Fong.
His establishment is one of regal and ORR
entail splendor. The natives appear to
take very kindly to the Chinamen-the
Kanaka women marrying them in prefer
ence to white men or men of their own
nationality, and in this think they are
fully justified and eyince sound discre-
ton. The Chinaman Is frugal and
thrifty-respects and takes pride in his
Kanaka wife, escorts her about and fur
nishes good home. The native is too
indolsnt, too improvident or too big an
Indian to take his wife into consideration,
and the white man abuses and deserts her
whenever and as often as it suits his pur-
pose, Home journal
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-08-11
Where Are the Manly Isovs9

Can you find me in any Of our great
cities manly boy?
II so, he is IN exception. Where are
the registering youths Of our early days!
Where the boys who defied the police,
upset ash barrels, raced around the Block,
played ball in defiance of authority,
climbed trees, flew kites, played marbles,
wrestled with each other by the hour, had
hearty appetites, red cheeks, sturdy mus
cles and dirty hands?
You CAN'T find them,
There is no such thing in existence
within the bounds Of any city. Your boys
now are milksops, with long tail coats
and dude collars that hold their chins in
air, rings on their fingers and Jewels on
their shirt fronts, pale, weak eyed, puny
listed, cigarette sinking machines. II in
the very heyday of youth, when red blood
should pump thro' their veins with tho
Yigor of mn avalanche, II when sleen
should be sweet and restless occupation q
continuous desire, they are flabby mus
cled, feeble kneed, Hstless as to manner,
aping the manners and fashions of the
vile, what will they be when ago settles
upon them and the duties of life confront
them? And yet these are to be the hus-
bands of our girls, these effeminate,
pulling, menkeyfled babblings are to be
tho fathers of our grandchildren, whose
votes arc to shape the destinies of the re-
public, whose faculties are to be the props
of great enterprises in years to come
Joe Towards Letter.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-08-11
With Nails on Their Gloves.

OF course there is absolutely no means
of judging the relative powers of the
ancients and the moderns in the "noble
art Of self defence" That the ancients,
especially tho Greeks, did box, and that
most sayagely, we know. So far from
using gloves to lessen the damaging effects
Of their blows, or even from using simply
the power that training and nature had
given to their fists, they increased this by
tying straps of hard bulls hide around
them when clinched, and sometimes even
attached nails and lead buckles to these
to make their blows moro deadly.
They also usually, but. not always,
fought continuously until one Of the CON-
batants gave in, rounds" apparently,
not being to their taste. But although
there seems to have been this savagery
about the contests, it by no means follows
that scientific boxer" Of the present
day would not be allie to hold his own in
one, if a trial were possible. Nineteenth
(,nrt..~-
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-08-11


Parson Newman, who is now back at
his old charge, the Metropolitan NJ. +.
church of Washington, tells how. poet
secured hearing 1t was during the
Hayes administration. ''One night at
prayer meeting" DR.. Newman says, 81
called on good layman to lead in deyos
tions: Before he began, saw he had
drawn o manuscript from his pocket, but
I thought it was to guide him in the words
of his petition. Soon was surprised to
hear him reading poem to tho Almighty.
When he got along little heard him
soy tsWe've been in maze and now we
have Hayes.n ! pseped around and saw
that all my flock had gotten up from their
knees. ! did the same, though hest
tatingiy, and with mixed feelings of
chagrin and amusement. The good brother
never got the chance to read another poem
in my church, n-American Magazine.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-08-11
A Rustic Lad on the Sidcwalk-A City
Boy in the Country.

A Rustic Lad on the SidcwaIk-A City
Boy in the Country.
When the country chap enters on the
sidewalks of city it astonishes him, ana
at the same moment irritates him to hear
remark from q dapper youth to the
effect; "Hulle, eountryni He can't for
the life of him see what there is in his ap-
pearance that suggests that he is from the
country. His cowhide boots, his clothes
of o hue that suggest the home dye pot,
and cut which recalls past genera
ton; the stoop in his shoulders indicative
of toll, his queer hat and long, pnkempt
hair do not present themselves to him as
being at all odd or out of the way. He
does not believe that there is anything in
his appearance that is unlike the city
chaps: It is simply an p4warranted in
suit.
'sfou shet up, gol darn yep' is his reply
to the impertinence,
Then another city boy joins the first,
and then three more. They form around
the visitor, first at safe distance, and re-
peat the offensive "Country" "Coun-
try!" One holder than the other makes
snatch at his visitors hat, and he in re.
turn launches out his big cowhide boot
and catches the little assailant in ten.
der place. He bowls with pain, and ther
the others attack the countryman en-
aassss, Thay hit him with chunks c:
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-08-11

wool. They pelt him with Jumps Of dirt.
They charge on him in ones, twos, threes
and smite him I'm the back, on his coun-
tenance. They trip him up and otherwise
maltreat him till the racket attracts a
citizen with q cane and a constahle's com.
mission, who chases away the mob.
AS result there is eternal enmity be-
tween city and country. The city boy
that ventures into the country is liable to
get hit with stone or q rotten apple, be-
sides being constantly jbed at for his ap-
pearance. He Is put through course
Of sprouts of great variety.
When nature was engaged in the manu-
facture of "bumblebees' she made two
kinds, alike in appearance, save that she
painted the practical end of one bright yell
low and that of the other q deep black. The
former Is pretty and harmless; tho latter
is not so pretty, but makes up for it in the
possession Of q lance that 1t uses with con-
summate skill.
1t was fun to initiate the city boy into
hunting bumblebees in connection with
assuring him that you knew plant whose
juice rubbed on the hands would turn the
sting of bee. The country boy rubs his
palms with the white juice of the milk
weed, and then demonstrates its value to his
credulous visitor. He hunts among the bull
thistles till he finds bumblebee with the
yellow caisson, and boldly clutches him in
his hand. Then the city boy must try it,;
milkweed juice is applied, and then the
crafty country fiend "steers" him against
bull thistle in which sits and sups bee
with the nigrescent attachment. He
grasps it gingerly, and instantly drops it
with O shrek of pain, and convulsively
shakes his hand as he twists about in
agony.
A nettle bush affords the country lad
opportunity to amuse his city visitor.
go and shake that bush there, and you'll
hear bees holler." He grasps it, shakes
1t vigorously, and moment later it is
himself which he hears "holler," and not
the bees. To induce the untutored city
boy to climb up bush to get sight of the
eggs in 'crow's nest'' is n popular
method of getting the visitor in commu-
nication with a residence of a hornet. In
walking through the woods one would
sometimes encounter the young of well
known animal, and which had the ap-
pearance of kitten. To point out the
"kitten," and induce the city innocent to
go and pick it up, was not an uncommon
occurrence. / have seen several Of these
animals thus picked mp, but never saw
an instance in which they were held for
any great length of time.
Another little diversion in the interests
of the visitor from the city was to in
veigle him to 60 in swimming, and then
deluge his shirt with that leguminous di-
abolish, "cowitch." All the country
boys, when they go swimming, dry them
selves with their shirts. The city boy,
following their example, would intensity
the torture of the application.
The country boy had his revenges.-
"Poliuto" In Chicago Times.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-08-11
WHEN LOVE AWAKES.

You say tho dear old love is dead.
Love does not die, dear heart of mine;
We may not kiss the sweet lips, red,
No love light in the eyes may shine,
But love, once born, decreed by fate,
Sleeps transiently or turns to hate.
And is this hate, my own dear heart,
That comes and gently strokes my hair,
Hate does not bid the swift tears start
At hasty words, nor does 1t care
To fondly raise the dropping head
And breathe good cheer. Love is not dead.
1t sleeps, it wanders, wanders far
Beyond the horizons outmost rim,
Goes blindly on, from star TO star,
- But evermore comes back to him
Who worthily will calmly wait,
Loves Weakening comes. You will not hate.
James Clarence Harvey in Home Journal.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-08-11
His Faith Was Gone.

The graduate had an able paper. 1t was
entitled: ''The Genus Homo" The re-
porter noticed it kindly, The printer set
it up, ''The GERMS Home" The proof
reader recognizing the existence of
germs, and the necessity of their having
homes, let it go. Then the graduate lifted
up his voice, His faith in journalism was
gons fc-svas. .,....~.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-08-11
Mexican Lovers Guide. !"

There is on sale everywhere and in uni
Fersal use sheaply printed little pamph-
let entitled s:.El Sscretario de los Aman-
tes.n 1t is the guide and hand book of
lovers. 1t contains the language of
flowers, tho significance of the varied
wearing and handling of the sombrero,
the language of fsn, the language of
fruits, the meaning Of the varied use of
the handkerchief, emblems in designating
the hours of day and night in making APP
pointments, the use of the numerals IN
cipher writing, several short chapters on
the conduct of q love affair, and the deaf
mute alphabet for one hand. This literary
gem seems to be more studied than any
other in the republic.-Charles Dudley
Warner in Harper's Magazine.